Glad it helped!
I first tried making the change in the main subscriptions folder but it didn't seem to help much. So I looked under properties of each of the invididual sub-folders they were still checked. Unchecked a couple of those and increased the update frequency and those folders update on their own instead of waiting for the feed to come from NewsGator.
I'm sure the sync tool is a nice feature for people who want to be able to check their feeds from different computers. But my notebook is close enough where I am at home or on the road when I want to check, so it isn't a feature I really need.
To tell whether the folder is synched, look at the lower left corner of the sub-folder. If there is what looks like to be a small orange circle, it is still synched. A normal looking folder, it isn't.
